Not getting filtered ads from facebook ads api - facebook

Question

I am using facebook marketing api to retrieve fb ads.
Using facebook graph api explorer I am trying to retrieve list of ads on the basis of ad-sets
https://graph.facebook.com/v10.0/adset_id/ads?fields=name,configured_status&configured_status=["ACTIVE"]
but it showing me all the ads(Active,Paused) instead of filtering(active only).
Is there anything I am missing?

Answer 1

You should use the filtering params. Seems is not possible to filter for status or configured_status but you should use the effective_status instead.
...&filtering=[{ "field": "effective_status","operator": "IN","value": ["ACTIVE" ]}]
As example, for this adsets:
<adset-id>/ads?fields=id,status,effective_status
With the following data:
{
"data": [
{
"id": "<ad-id>",
"status": "ACTIVE",
"effective_status": "ACTIVE"
},
{
"id": "<ad-id>",
"status": "PAUSED",
"effective_status": "PAUSED"
},
{
"id": "<ad-id>",
"status": "PAUSED",
"effective_status": "PAUSED"
},
.....
}
You can apply the filtering like:
<adset-id>/ads?fields=id,status,effective_status&filtering=[{ "field": "effective_status","operator": "IN","value": ["ACTIVE" ]}]
Will return:
{
"data": [
{
"id": "<ad-id>",
"status": "ACTIVE",
"effective_status": "ACTIVE"
}
],
....
}